ADCO Operations

The Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario (ADCO) is comprised of independent licensed child care owner/operators--both commercial and not-for-profit.

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

Thanks to Bill Carroll and the Morning Rush team for highlighting issues related to the future of the federal child care scheme.https://t.co/Pd2xfIcLft

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Food for thought...

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

Using taxpayer money to replace existing privately owned centres with government-controlled ones has always been a key feature of the federal child care scheme. https://t.co/MZkKjhDDvQ

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

This kind of thing is deeply concerning given how much data the Province collects from licensed child care centres since roll-out of the federal child care scheme.

[Matthew Lau @matlau10]

Used properly, AI could dramatically improve govt's productivity and efficiency, benefitting taxpayers.

Unfortunately, as the Auditor General report found, the Ontario govt's mismanagement of AI exposes us to new risks & higher costs instead.

https://t.co/2VVLa5srab

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

The federal child care program isn't creating new spaces fast enough. Child care entrepreneurs could easily solve this problem, however, the program is more geared to eliminating them than to engaging them as valued service partners.
https://t.co/3VjNvzYieN

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National Post https://t.co/awA7tmPTY2 via @nationalpost

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Social media bans based on age may be popular in theory, but the reality is they do nothing to address compulsive platform design. For users of any age, the addictive nature of social media is at least as big a problem as potentially harmful content. https://t.co/kl5VPTktqV via @epochtimes

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

Even if the impact of counter-tariffs on consumers was somewhat less than expected, hurting Canadian families to try to make a point with American politicians never made any sense.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

Unique @BankOfCanada research finds Canadian firms absorbed most costs of 2025 counter-tariffs with inflation impact less than expected.
https://t.co/OXzcIVcstV #cdnpoli

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

Education monopolies are a bad idea. Allowing parents to move their children and their financial contributions away from under-performing schools forces all schools to do better. It seems to work everywhere it's tried. https://t.co/uo3VGCYJex via @epochtimes

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

There's no reason to imagine that government-run grocery stores would help families, particularly given Canadians' experience with the federal child care program. Taxpayers are paying billions in ongoing costs, but it isn't any easier to find a space. It is also causing real problems with child care quality. https://t.co/5LCOPkPMs4

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Seems child care isn't the only segment of the Canadian economy where poor policy choices have discouraged or eliminated entrepreneurship.
https://t.co/doJyAIqZs4

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Excellent insight by Matthew Lau. https://t.co/XF7zP1M93c

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

@TinaYazdani Tina, you've done some really good work digging deeper than most into a number of issues related to child care. Wishing you all the best.

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

@matlau10 @CDNAffairs One of the biggest scandals associated with this program is that it was financed entirely with new government debt and shows no sign of ever actually paying for itself.

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

Interesting take on some of the failures of the federal child care scheme. https://t.co/vp8Uw9Bb3c via @CDNAffairs

[ADCO Operations @OpsAdco]

@hollyanndoan @ESDC_GC One of the most significant data gaps related to the federal child care scheme is that the number of centre closures since its roll-out doesn't seem to have been tracked or reported. Ontario reports annually on centre closures. The feds need to do the same.